No ones actually mentioned this quite yet, but I find it very interesting, so
I figured I'd bring it up..
(More info at http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1980986.html?
tag=st.ne.1002.thed.ni but the link contains links to pages that have been
taken down)
Anyone else find it interesting that AOL's net appliances being made with
Gateway actually run Linux? Even better, using the Gecho technology out of
(GASP! Dare we say it in a commercial sense??) Mozilla.
Personally, I think wide scale deployment of these devices, if they ever
catch on, would be an incredible example of the abilities of Linux as an OS to
provide a stable, quality environment for wide scale, end user use. Bear in
mind, I'm not speaking from the terms of current Linux users, but the general
perceptions by some less experienced that Linux is some sort of third world OS
only usefull to 'those backroom hacker geeks'.
Any ideas as to what kind of GUI that they would be looking at? I haven't
heard much regarding the current beta Transmeta machines, but the one I have
seen ran NanoUI. Anyone ever tried much working with NanoUI or some of the
other stipped down interfaces, such as W Windows? Can these provide as stable
an environment as the time proven X? (OkOkOk, no flames here, X crashes mostly
becouse of hardware 'thingies' under X86. All X servers aren't as unstable as
XF86 can be under many conditions).
Anyway, just curiouse, and figured it'd make an interesting conversation
peice..
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Thomas Charron
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